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Odd Corners: The Slip-Stream World of William Hjortsberg

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Odd Corners: The Slip-Stream World of William Hjortsberg

Contributors:

By (Author) William Hjortsberg

ISBN:

9781593760212

Publisher:

Counterpoint

Imprint:

Counterpoint

Publication Date:

30th March 2004

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

FIC

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

256

Dimensions:

Width 139mm, Height 177mm

Description

In 1971, when William Hjortsberg first published Gray Matters, reviewers mentioned Borges. And in 1972 came Symbiography, a novella about a man who dreams for a living. He is, in fact, a best-selling dreamer. Before "Mad Max" (1979) and Neuromancer (1984), back in the days when reality was either "real" or chemical, Hjortsberg sat about to create a post-holocaust fiction, (mis-termed, we think, "science" fiction), that anticipates the Virtual, the Punk, and the Meta. In The New York Times, John Leonard called him "a satanic S.J. Perelman . . . by way of Disney and de Sade," and Harry Crews, also in The Times, continued, "He writes fiction the way Leroy Jordan plays football-with controlled abandon-which is to say, with the abandon that only the greatest discipline can release." As readers it is thrilling to realize how perfectly timed this work is for our day, fresher even, somehow, than it was thirty years ago. Odd Corners collects Gray Matters and Symbiography together with two stories never before in book form, a complete cyberworld, courtesy of William Hjorstberg.

Reviews

"Gray Matters raises nothing less than the question: What is the point of living And Hjortsberg makes that question uproariously funny."

Author Bio

William Hjortsberg is the author of eight books, including Alp, Gray Matters, and Falling Angel, as well as the screenplays "Legend" and "Thunder & Lightning." He lives in Montana with his wife, painter Janie Camp.

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